COVID-19 deaths in Africa surge more than 40% over previous week
Norwegian Government Extends Financial Support Worth Over 8 billion Uganda Shillings to the World Health Organization to Improve COVID-19 vaccine roll out in Uganda.
Kampala 15th July 2021: - The Norwegian Government has partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO) in a 12-months project worth over 8 billion Uganda Shillings to improve COVID-19 vaccine coverage and uptake in Uganda. The project intends to support the vaccination of at least 60% (2,879,100/ 4,798,500) of high-risk populations eligible for vaccination. In addition, upon acquisition of adequate quantities of the vaccine, health workers, teachers, security officials, and those with comorbidities will be vaccinated with two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Au Tchad, l’OMS invite les prestataires à travailler davantage sur le diagnostic précoce du VIH chez les nourrissons et l’accès à la charge virale des Personnes vivant avec le VIH sous traitement.
Le Représentant de l’OMS au Tchad invite les prestataires à travailler davantage sur le diagnostic précoce du VIH chez les nourrissons et l’accès à la charge virale des Personnes vivant avec le VIH sous traitement antirétroviral afin d’accélérer la marche vers la fin du VIH/sida d’ici 2030.
Ghana’s First Lady Advocates for Good Nutrition
She made this call at the opening session of the Nutrition Advocacy and Community Mobilization Initiative, a forum to engage esteemed traditional and religious leaders to promote nutrition interventions for women and children in Ghana.
World Bank support strengthens clinical management of COVID-19 in Ghana
Community informants’ network consolidating AFP surveillance to sustain polio eradication gains in Nigeria
Abuja, 12 July 2021 - As a health worker and a patent medicine vendor living in Gubio 1 ward, Borno State, Dauda Ahmed encourages members of his community to notify him or the nearest health facility of any child under 15 years with weakness or paralysis of any of the limbs.
WHO renews North-East Nigeria’s Health Emergency grading at highest level, targets >8 million vulnerable populations for increased health services
Abuja, 9 July, 2021 - The humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s North-eastern BAY (Borno, Adamawa and Yobe) remains protracted, with an estimated eight million people at risk of displacement, impoverishment and threats of violence. As a result, WHO has resolved to maintain the current status of grade 3 health emergency declared in the region since 2016.
Africa’s COVID-19 surge tops second wave peak as vaccine deliveries pick up
WHO Rwanda drivers - A look and feel from the field amid the COVID-19 wave
Kigali, 30 June 2021 - Since mid-June, Rwanda has been experiencing a spike in the number of new COVID-19 confirmed cases each day. To support the country in facing the new wave, UN Agencies under the One UN Rwanda commonly agreed to commit further human and financial resources to the country’s COVID-19 response.
“Leaving no one behind” – Cross River targets refugees for COVID-19 vaccination
Calabar, 2 July 2021 - Few months since the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility, the global initiative to ensure equitable vaccine distribution, internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Adagom refugee community in Cross River State received their first dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine as part of the drive to leave no one behind in the fight against the pandemic.
Mr Elias Tako, the Chairman Adagom Refugees community, was not hesitant to receive the vaccine saying the vaccine will protect everyone against the virus.